Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. Greek: General
6. ONE. The Legacy of Greek Philosophy 3
7. TWO. The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics 49
8. THREE. Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology 60
9. Socrates and Plato
10. FOUR. Pagan Justice and Christian Love 71
11. FIVE. Introduction to Plato’s Theaetetus 83
12. SIX. Plato against the Immoralist 97
13. SEVEN. The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato’s Republic 108
14. EIGHT. Plato’s Construction of Intrinsic Goodness 118
15. NINE. Cratylus’ Theory of Names and Its Refutation 138
16. TEN. Plato: The Invention of Philosophy 148
17. Aristotle
18. ELEVEN. Acting as the Virtuous Person Acts 189
19. TWELVE. Aristotle on the Good: A Formal Sketch 198
20. THIRTEEN. Justice as a Virtue 207
21. FOURTEEN. Hylomorphism 218
22. Descartes
23. FIFTEEN.Descartes’ Use of Scepticism 231
24. SIXTEEN. Introductory Essay on Descartes’ Meditations 246
25. SEVENTEEN. Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy 257
26. Hume
27. EIGHTEEN. Hume on Religion 267
28. Sidgwick
29. NINETEEN. The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and the Ambitions of Ethics 277
30. Nietzsche
31. TWENTY. Nietzsche’s Minimalist Moral Psychology 299
32. TWENTY-ONE. Introduction to The Gay Science 311
33. TWENTY-TWO. “There are many kinds of eyes” 325
34. TWENTY-THREE. Unbearable Suffering 331
35. R. G. Collingwood
36. TWENTY-FOUR. An Essay on Collingwood 341
37. Wittgenstein
38. TWENTY-FIVE. Wittgenstein and Idealism 361
39. Bernard Williams: Complete Philosophical Publications 381